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I noticed in the list that there seamed to be a repeat of offices or functions is that a typo or is the fed. paying themselves twice for the same job ???
I'll bet that there are a lot of places that they are paying20 or more folks to do a job that 10 could do well..
Thanks for the info none the less.

Glad you noticed that. And I wish I made notes while typing this out, because you could easily cut a trillion without making many "sacrifices." Not really even tapping into waste. Too many politicians coming in without really bothering to tap into waste and dysfunction. Just same old same old, business as usual. It's not wonder we're broke.

Politicians don't care, though they try to act like they care with their war on poverty, which really just creates more poverty than it uplift, but their interest is in being [re-]elected.

Well now you do. And there's plenty of others out there to help fill those gaps. But the best thing one can do is not create a climate that rewards failure and punishes success, allow opportunities, teach personal strength, understand that most of us start on the bottom and it's not always easy, to be encouraging...

thye publish this interactive evry year... what amazes me is taht no one looks at all the repeat stuff and says "hey cut that they do the same as..."
What is so strange is when I presented this interactive to a classroom full of both students and teachers and asked where do we cut.... not one majority idea showed up.... Every time one said cut here someone had a counter for why not to cut it. Clearly the people are no better at making those choices then teh government

I wonder how much of it actually goes to the overhead to run the Government not just the items listed. I think if we knew that there would be a big change pushed by the people not just some of the OWS types that were set up for politocal reasons.

The Obama administration has given ACORN spinoffs $729,849 so far this year and may hand out billions more in federal cash to these and other Saul Alinsky-inspired organizations, according to award-winning investigative journalist Matthew Vadum.

President Obama's new economic stimulus package contains as much as $15 billion in payoffs for radical left-wing groups such as ACORN, his former employer.

If you add up all of the military costs, plus foreign "aid", plus the CIA budget, plus most of NASA's budget, plus most of the interest on our national debt, the Pentagon costs us probably close to $2 trillion per year.

• Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education -- $2.5 billion
• Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians -- $152 million
• Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education -- $106 million
• National Indian Gaming Commission -- $17 million
BUREAUCRACY...............CON...

We can do better than that. End the Departments of Education, Commerce, and Energy. They do nothing for us. Cut all government retirement packages in half. Make government the least desirable place to work. Mail delivery three-days a week; cut the work force by 3/4. Return the EPA function to the states along with Medicaid. End Obamacare.

my dad's a letter carrier and I'm dependent on him right now, so I don't like the sound of cutting the postal service (nor do they normally receive tax money -- they were self-sustaining until Congress passed a law requiring them to put away $5bill/yr for retirement benefits of current employees).

The Post Office says they are losing money. Nobody depends on the post office any more. We have email and pay bills on-line. The obvious solution is to get rid of it or at least cut the number of days for delivery. Turn the whole thing over to FedEx. They will make money out of it. Your dad can work for them.